The WALL STREET JOURNAL's Allen Barra writes of the escalating price of attending big-time sports, "If you are willing to pay, the price stays high. If you aren't – or at least enough of you aren't – then the price will come back down. It’s that simple … The fault lies not in our All-Stars, but in ourselves" (WALL STREET JOURNAL).

SI.com's Steve Aschbuner writes of NBA free agency, "How alluring an NBA city is to your average player weighing his employment options goes a long way toward determining its team's success and its fans' enjoyment" (SI.com).